ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
GOOD STANDING, PROBATION, AND DISQUALIFICATION
A University degree represents mature growth toward responsibility and professional achievement. Study and depth of understanding, well beyond the requirements at many high schools, prepare you for an engineering environment after graduation. This environment encompasses, on the one hand, mutual cooperation among fellow professionals; and on the other hand, an expectation that you will contribute your share to each project to help solve a problem which has not yet been solved. You will have no teacher to give you the "answer." You must have sufficient knowledge and reasoning ability to select from a host of reference materials that information which is applicable and correct, and to reject unprofessional data.
To remain in Good Standing in the Department, you must maintain:
- term-by-term, and cumulatively, a Technical GPA and a University GPA of at least 2.00;
- fail no courses;
- earn at least C- in each of the courses specified under Graduation Requirements;
- fulfill all course pre/corequisites;
- and remove any incomplete (I) grades within thirty days of the last day of final exams.
In any courses that your adviser permits you to repeat more than once, a grade of C must be earned. If you are facing difficulties, educational or personal, please consult your instructor or a departmental adviser at the earliest possible time. We will try to help you.
If you do not meet these conditions, you are on Departmental Probation. Departmental Probation conditions may require you to:
- repeat courses (including courses in which you received transfer credit, and courses in which you receive a grade of C or less at Polytechnic);
- specify your credit load and permissible withdrawals;
- or take other remedial programs.
If you do not meet Departmental Probation requirements, or twice fail to earn the required grade in any one course, or do not conform to the University Student Code of Practice, you are subject to being disqualified from working toward the BSEE, or BSCompE degrees. The action taken depends on your particular case. If you are disqualified, you may appeal in writing; you may apply for readmission after two terms (Fall, Spring, or Summer) have passed, if you show evidence of success.
The University office of Academic Affairs also reviews the progress of each student with slightly different criteria. EE Advisers work with that office to give the best advice to students who are having academic difficulties. Please check the University catalog/website for criteria concerning University Probation/Good Standing. That office may permit a student who has been disqualified from a program in the EE Department to continue at Polytechnic in a different degree program.
Exceptions may occasionally be made, in writing, by a departmental adviser. Please feel free to ask.
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Good Standing / Probation / Disqualification
